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Types of 20th century wars
Guerilla warfare
Small-unit raids go against a larger and formal army
"little war" in spanish
More of a tactic than a type of war
Examples
Chinese civil war 1920 - 1949
Algerian war: Algerian gerrillas vs french troops
Vietnam war
Guerrilla warfare after 1945
Asia and Africa wanted to free from European countries control
Cold war: communism against capitalism
Marxism: rise up against capitalism
Post-cold war: Al Qaeda against the west
Technological developments in weapons and mass media publicity encourage guerrilla fighters
Civil war
Between 2 regions of the same country
Ethnic, religious, political or ideological issues
Incumbents or insurgents
Harder to distinct between soldier and civilian
Can have characteristics of total war
More bitter, you fight with the people of your own country
Causes
Political divisions
Different religious ideas
Oppression and neglect
Consequences
Prolonged dictatorship
Civilian suffering
Militarization of communities
Rise to the power of a strong leader
Objective
Take control of political and legal institutions from the state
Examples
Spain 1936-39
Pakistan 1971
Divided Pakistan and Bangladesh
Nigeria 1960
China
International countries intervention
Help the most favorable side
Take advantage of the country's division
Total wars
Total use of resources
goverment intervention
economic
arrange to benefit in war
media
mantain moral
reforce population idea of the enemy´s position
use all weapons and develop new ones
objective: ensure countrie´s victory
examples
WW1
WW2
considered total wars because of the use all all resources and not beacuse they were worwide wars
Wars between states
Limited wars
Limited
Geographical area to fight
targets
weapons
mobilization
restrictions to prevent danger and great damage
necessary during 19th century
prevent nuclear war
examples
Korean war
Vietnam war
limited wars becuase they didn´t used all their resoures
in some cases conflic didn´t remined limited
the war could spread and turn into a bigger war
depending on the country perspective the war type cound be different
Ariana Ohashi & Fabiana Presentación